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IIBF Resolution of Stressed Assets study plan

IIBF Resolution of Stressed Assets · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Map the IBC 2016 architecture end to end: define 'default', 'financial debt', 'operational debt', 'corporate debtor', 'corporate insolvency resolution process' and state which section governs each

  • Trace the timeline of a CIRP from filing to admission to resolution plan approval, listing the statutory outer limits and where extension requires NCLT approval

  • Distinguish the roles and powers of the NCLT, the IRP/RP, the CoC, and the information utilities, and note who can file under section 7, 9 and 10

  • Build a one-page decision tree for choosing between section 7 (financial creditor), section 9 (operational creditor) and section 10 (corporate debtor) triggers

Your checkpoint

A labelled CIRP flowchart with every statutory time limit and the governing section cited on each arrow

Week 2

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Explain the default threshold and the evidence a financial creditor must furnish through an information utility versus other records

  • Summarise the admission and rejection grounds the NCLT applies at the section 7 and section 9 stages, including the treatment of pre-existing disputes in operational debt claims

  • Describe the moratorium's scope under section 14 and identify which transactions and proceedings it does and does not restrain

  • Outline the IRP's first-30-day duties: public announcement, claims collation, management takeover and appointment of professionals

Your checkpoint

A written answer of about 300 words on whether a disputed operational debt claim is maintainable, with section references

Week 3

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • List the categories excluded from the section 14 moratorium and explain the reasoning behind each exclusion

  • Compare the powers available under sections 43, 45, 50 and 66 to avoid preferential, undervalued, extortionate and fraudulent transactions, and state the look-back periods

  • Explain when the RP can invoke section 66 against erstwhile directors and what standard of conduct must be shown

  • Work through the interaction between the moratorium and recovery proceedings by banks, including the position on personal guarantors

Your checkpoint

A table of avoidance provisions with look-back period, applicant, forum and remedy for each

Week 4

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Describe how the CoC is constituted, how voting shares are computed and what the 66 per cent threshold means for plan approval

  • Explain the section 12A withdrawal route and the grounds on which the NCLT and Supreme Court have permitted settlement post-admission

  • Distinguish the CoC's commercial wisdom from the NCLT's limited power of judicial review over a resolution plan

  • Identify the mandatory contents of a resolution plan and the section 30(2) compliance tests the RP must verify

Your checkpoint

A mock CoC voting computation for a three-creditor committee showing voting share percentages and whether a plan clears the threshold

Week 5

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Explain the waterfall under section 53 and rank CIRP costs, secured creditors, workmen dues, employee dues and statutory dues in order

  • Analyse how section 30(2)(b) requires a resolution plan to pay dissenting operational creditors at least liquidation value

  • Describe the position of the successful resolution applicant on past liabilities, including statutory dues and the effect of a section 31 approval order

  • Summarise the Supreme Court's reasoning on why the CoC's decision on distribution need not match the section 53 waterfall

Your checkpoint

A worked distribution example applying the section 53 waterfall to a hypothetical estate, with each class's recovery shown

Week 6

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Outline the liquidation process: grounds for liquidation, the liquidator's appointment, the liquidation estate and the consolidation of claims

  • Distinguish the liquidation waterfall from the CIRP waterfall and note the priority given to secured creditors who relinquish versus realise security

  • Explain the pre-packaged insolvency resolution process for MSMEs and contrast its trigger, timelines and CoC mechanics with the ordinary CIRP

  • Describe the individual and partnership insolvency framework and the fresh-start and repayment plan thresholds

Your checkpoint

A comparison sheet contrasting CIRP, fast-track CIRP, pre-pack and liquidation across trigger, timeline, decision-maker and waterfall

Week 7

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Explain the RBI framework for resolution of stressed assets outside the IBC, including the requirement to review a resolution plan before invoking insolvency

  • Map how banks classify and provide for stressed exposures and when an account must be referred for insolvency under the applicable prudential norms

  • Trace the appeal route from an NCLT order to NCLAT and then to the Supreme Court, and state the limitation periods for each

  • Identify the key Supreme Court and NCLAT rulings that changed CIRP practice on admission, moratorium scope and plan approval

Your checkpoint

A case-law digest of at least six rulings, each with the issue, holding and practical impact on a lender

Week 8

Resolution of Stressed Assets through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016

  • Revise all eight weeks using a consolidated one-page summary of sections, timelines and thresholds

  • Complete a timed mock paper under exam conditions and score it against the official weighting

  • Re-drill every question answered incorrectly in earlier weeks and restate the correct rule from memory

  • Recite the key numeric thresholds, look-back periods and statutory timelines without reference material

Your checkpoint

A scored mock paper with an error log and a written note of the three weakest areas plus the corrective action for each

Milestones

Week 2: Can explain the CIRP timeline, filing routes and moratorium scope from memory, scoring at least 70 per cent on a 30-question self-test

Week 4: Can compute CoC voting shares and apply the approval threshold correctly in two out of two practice scenarios

Week 6: Can reproduce the section 53 waterfall and contrast it with the liquidation waterfall without notes

Week 8: Scores at least 75 per cent on a full-length timed mock and can state every key threshold, look-back period and timeline from memory